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Microsoft: The Unlikely Sponsor Of Linux

05-25-2012, 10:30 AM

Phoronix: Microsoft: The Unlikely Sponsor Of Linux

Besides the Fedora hot dog marketing strategy going on at LinuxTag in Berlin, another interesting aspect of this leading German Linux conference is the sponsors for this year's event. Microsoft and Nokia are among the leading sponsors...

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The abstract for the Microsoft openness talk by James Utzschneider: "Microsoft has become increasingly open as a company and increasingly focused on investing in standards and interoperability as a way to provide customers with flexibility and choice, helping them optimize their mixed IT environments. In this, his second Linux Tag talk, James Utzschneider, Microsoft?s General Manager for Competitive Strategy, will share his perspective on Microsoft?s openness journey ? including the company?s commitment to cross-platform interoperability, its current relationships with open source technologies and communities, and how customers and partners are responding."

Microsoft has published its product lineup for Visual Studio 11 and open source developers are noting that the new line up will cause particular problems for creators of open source desktop applications on Windows. The company is planning to drop support for desktop-style applications from the free-of-charge Visual Studio Express, meaning that developers will only be able to develop Metro applications with it.

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Btw. I think the iBand was even worst than Microsoft... But in Czech Republic we had LinuxExpo, smaller version of LinuxTag. After Microsoft started to sponsor it - it was renamed to Open Source Conference and now it's dead! But there's community - so welcome LinuxDays (this year hold together with OpenSUSE and Gentoo conferences!).

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But if that makes people move to mingw (with QtCreator or some other IDE), we can finally use C99 on WIndows!

Better:
C# "desktop" developers may just have a look at mono which would probably get quite pushed to be at least the same quality as .Net.. Wich would have the nice effect that all those native c# apps that do nothing on the system level will be compatible with mono on linux.

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Microsoft is only sponsoring these events so that they can control the dialog there to some extent. In exchange for the money, the event will feel like they owe it to Microsoft to let them hijack the event and start talking about Microsoft software instead of Free and Open Source software.

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C# "desktop" developers may just have a look at mono which would probably get quite pushed to be at least the same quality as .Net.. Wich would have the nice effect that all those native c# apps that do nothing on the system level will be compatible with mono on linux.

Didn't think about that part, more about projects that are intended to be cross-platform from the start, and since Windows people want to use MS's crappy C compiler can't use C99 (ok, new projects in pure C are probably not that common these days).